When you sit and talk Boxing the first thing you tend to
talk about is a Heavyweight fight or the Heavyweight division. Since the 1908 when Jack Johnson won the title people have always talked and debated Heavyweight boxing it’s an enigma in sport for certain reasons. The 1930s and 40s where dominated by Joe (Brown Bomber
Louis who knocked out people for fun, his fight with the German fighter Max Scmeling was the centre piece of a political stand of between Nazi Germany and the West. After Louis came Rocky Marciano who went undefeated for 50 fights and remains highly thought of in the boxing world, most people looked to him as the fighter who ruled the 50s. After Rocky a few people held the title but know one captured the world’s attention until the early 60s when a young brash American called Cassius Clay came
on the scene after winning gold at the Rome Olympics, four years after he achieved this feat he defeated the feared champion Sonny Liston to rule two decades of the sport and have great fights with Joe Frazier, George Foreman and Ken Norten. Just when nobody thought a single fighter could capture the division again along came a young fighter from Brownsville New York by the name of Mike Tyson who’s
power was scary and ferocious he became champion at only the age of 20 a feat that no other fighter has achieved since then. Tyson’s draw was fascinating because he normally knocked people out within the first round and looked like he enjoyed it, the 90s was a very good decade for the division with Evander Holyfield and Lennox Lewis also ruling the division to with great fights as well. Since then this great division has been ruled by the Klitschko brothers from Ukraine Wladimir and Vitali people for years have sneered at them for not being exciting to watch or boring you could easily argue that the quality of opposition hasn’t been great for them. Today Wladimir
fights Tyson Fury a young fighter from Manchester in what many people are calling the fight to reignite interest in the great Heavyweight division, why many people are hyped for this is because of Fury’s antics like turning to a press conference dressed as Batman and getting up in Wladimir face and saying he is going to knock him out. Wladimir stands at 6 ft 7 which is huge for a boxer and has a long reach which stops fighters from getting close to his chin. Fury stands at 6 ft 9 and also has a long reach which sometimes he doesn’t use but is still undefeated. With fighters like Anthony Joshua and Deonty Wilder on the rise and with David Haye’s comeback the heavyweight division is in a great state, this fight will be hugely talked until that first bell at 10pm UK time some are hoping for a slugfest but some predict Klitschko to try and control it with the jab fom Tyson’s side he will try to get close to Klitschko and land a punch to wobble him and could go to southpaw and orthodox when he wants to. If the unthinkable happens and Fury wins and becomes champion the whole division will be opened up and we could have many different champions in the next few years, if Wladimir wins then we might have to literally wait till he retires for the division to fully flourish unless unless another young contender beats him. There will be so many things that this fight could mean depending on the result which is why it’s such an intriguing battle. If you ask a lot of contenders about this fight most would prefer Fury to win because of the opening up of the division but most except Wladimir to win but are still tipping Fury to make it a tough fight. Whoever the winner is tonight the real for any Boxing fan will be that this fight can go some way to regaining the glory the Heavyweight division once had.